A finance manager from Ireland’s national railway network who turned whistleblower has said his work duties have been “hacked down to nothing” – meaning his main tasks are to eat lunch and read newspapers, while being paid 121,000 (105,000; $126,000) a year.
Dermot Alastair Mills was talking at a hearing into his complaint under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014, in which he said that he had been relieved of most of his duties at Irish Rail, according to the Irish Independent.
Mills told the Workplace Relations Commission: “I’d say if I got something that requires me to do work once in a week I’d be thrilled.”
He claims he has been penalised as a whistleblower after raising concerns about accounting at Irish Rail in 2014.
Irish Rail does not dispute that Mills made a protected disclosure, but says it did not penalise him.
Mills told the Commission that he either works from home or in the office, and when he goes into the office, heads in for 10am.
“I buy two newspapers, the Times and the Independent, and a sandwich. I go into my cubicle, I turn on my computer, I look at emails. There are no emails associated with work, no messages, no communications, no colleague communications.
“I sit and I read the newspaper and I eat my sandwich. Then about 10.30am, if there’s an email which requires an answer, I answer it. If there’s work associated with it, I do that work.”
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